Rice University geobiologist tapped for Antarctic drilling mission
Team will search for fossil evidence of West Antarctic ice’s response to climate warming Jade Boyd – Apr. 25, 2022 Jeanine Ash (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) HOUSTON – (April 25, 2022) – Rice...
View ArticleHouston birdwatcher turned to listening in the pandemic
Jade Boyd 713-348-6778 jadeboyd@rice.edu Recording hobby sheds light on birds that migrate at night over southeast Texas HOUSTON – (April 28, 2022) – When COVID-19 limited Cin-Ty Lee’s options for...
View ArticleEPSL: Carbon recycling efficiency in subduction zones constrained by the...
Michael Lara, Rajdeep Dasgupta The extent of CO2 transfer from subducting lithologies to the overlying mantle wedge in general and to the arc magma source regions in particular remains debated. The...
View ArticleJournal of Scientific Computing: A Non-perturbative Approach to Computing...
A continuous Galerkin method based approach is presented to compute the seismic normal modes of rotating planets. Special care is taken to separate out the essential spectrum in the presence of a fluid...
View ArticleStudy: Explosive volcanic eruption produced rare mineral on Mars
Jade Boyd – Jul. 25, 2022 Researchers publish scenario that explains 2016 discovery by NASA’s Curiosity rover HOUSTON – (July 25, 2022) – Planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA’s Johnson...
View ArticleMost but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change
Mike Williams, Rice News – Aug. 1, 2022 Rice University survey suggests some aren’t considering dangerous conditions to come A survey of coaches and athletic officials in Texas indicates many of them...
View ArticleAGU Advances: Clumped-isotope constraint on upper-tropospheric cooling during...
Asmita Banerjee, Laurence Y. Yeung, Lee T. Murray, Xin Tie, Jessica E. Tierney, and Allegra N. Legrande Abstract Ice cores and other paleotemperature proxies, together with general circulation models,...
View ArticleGeophysical Research Letters: Autocorrelation R2 on Mars
Sizhuang Deng and Alan Levander Plain Language Summary The subsurface structures of Earth are imaged by the detailed analysis of seismic data recorded by thousands of stations deployed on Earth’s...
View ArticleLithos: Correlations between olivine composition and groundmass mineralogy in...
Anton Viljoen, Geoffrey H. Howarth, Andrea Giuliani, Angus Fitzpayne, Gelu Costin Abstract Sierra Leone contains two Jurassic-aged diamondiferous kimberlite clusters, namely Koidu and Tongo-Tonguma...
View ArticleNature: Scientific Reports: A 5‑km‑thick reservoir with > 380,000 km3 of...
Rais Latypov, Sofya Chistyakova, Richard A. Hornsey, Gelu Costin & Mauritz van der Merwe Abstract Several recent studies have argued that large, long-lived and molten magma chambers may not occur...
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